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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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Tova:

--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 07 Oct 2012, 20:51 ---As for a better term, I'd probably call it ogling, or simply 'admiring the view'.

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"Perving" is a perfectly good term for those things. It wouldn't imply any more than that in Australia IMO.

Then again, we throw around words like "bugger" as well, so meh.

ponderch3rry:

--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 07 Oct 2012, 20:51 ---
--- Quote from: ponderch3rry on 07 Oct 2012, 16:36 ---
Also, a nice slang here for the television set is the "idiot box"  :-D

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Yep, you hear that one here in the States too  :-)

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Ah, I see! So it's just boob tube that's a bit odd when one refers to a piece of clothing in the USA, good to know :D


--- Quote from: Tova on 07 Oct 2012, 21:01 ---
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 07 Oct 2012, 20:51 ---As for a better term, I'd probably call it ogling, or simply 'admiring the view'.

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"Perving" is a perfectly good term for those things. It wouldn't imply any more than that in Australia IMO.

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Must be an Australian thing, eh? We say someone is perving on another person when they're checking them out. Like Tova says, it implies no further connotations than that.

Confusion = Sorted!  :-D

Overkillengine:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 07 Oct 2012, 05:31 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 06 Oct 2012, 20:16 ---
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 06 Oct 2012, 18:31 ---DNR, perhaps a dive through previous WCDTs might yield the answers you're looking for, as far as how far discussions have gone in the past, and might give a bit of a sense of closure to said discussion if you read what's come before? As I've said, I'm pretty new here, so I wouldn't personally know where to begin. But some of the veterans of the site might be able to give you an approximate timeframe for which to begin your search.

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http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,22409.0.html for example.

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Good grief, there's barely anyone in that thread that's posting in here anymore! 

My, how things have changed...

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Well, I and I assume other have lurked since well before then.

The amount of bile/strife/RAAAAAAGE that cropped up over things that should not be taken as seriously as they were really discouraged participation though.


And to add to burger related discussion: Deer burger is great, though usually you need some animal fat added from another meat type to keep it from being too dry.

Method of Madness:
Buffalo burgers = wonderful.

Re: "perving", if the word shares a definition with "pervert", I don't see how there's no negative connotation, but it's really just semantics at this point.

Tova:
Well, the word "bugger" isn't exactly polite if you look at its meaning, but it is such a mild curse in Australia that it was the centre-piece of a particularly well-known advertisement.

Slang isn't necessarily logical.

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